My weekend news

My weekend news

At home in the weekend me, Thomas and Hannah had a water-fight and we ended up in the pool. It was the evening and Hannah slipped off the side of the pool then I cannon bombed in and I jumped over Hannah’s head. She looked up and her mouth went out like a frightened goldfish, she put her hands on her eyes. I did a big jump into the pool and made a huge splash.

Finally we went in inside and had a bath and the bath was warm.

By Jorja

Geometry

Making shapes with the Fantails

Discovery Term 4, Week 1

Key Competency

Language, Symbols and Text

·         Communication (Adelle)

·         Talking to each other (Zoe)

·         Listening to each other (Tara)

·         Writing to someone like a letter (Nathan & Jack)

·         Gaining confidence in a range of presenting

Theme:  Classrooms of the Future

·         Kaiden shared his ideas when he was building with Lego

·         Tim and Thomas M listened to Kaiden’s ideas

·         Alicia, Bonnie, Te Korowai and Grace made a plate of food symbolising the food of the future.

·         Zoe and Indy used text on their pictures

Huatahi and June joined us to share their talents in flax flower making ...

Flax flowers on PhotoPeach

The rest of our discovery time was based on classrooms of the future. Check out our creations and thinking. 
Discovery Term 4, Week 1 on PhotoPeach

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Reflections

Next time I will remember to …

Bronson will remember to make something with writing on it (Adelle)

Tara will remember to make more things like furniture with the playdough (Hannah)

Zoe is going to remember to do more activities

Sam is going to remember to pack up the Lego (Zoe)

I discovered …

Zac said, “Te Korowai learnt how to make cow poo in the future.”

Kristen said, “Harri discovered that he could make a wooden classroom.”

Tim said, “Kimberley discovered that when she put a piece of wood on the table it kept on moving.”

Thomas M said, “Jordan learnt how to make flax flowers.”

Its cool how …

Te Korowai said, “Jonathan thought it was cool how you could make flowers out of flax.”

Bronson said, “It’s cool how Thomas F made a flying car.”

William said, “Grace thought it was cool making flowers out of flax.”

Legend said, “Ben said it was cool how you pulled the cars back and then they go forward.” 

Kumeroa House Trip

Kumeroa won the house points for Term 3

For their treat they enjoyed a morning away from school, starting with feeding the calves at Olly and Cohen's farm.

Kumeroa House Term 3 on PhotoPeach


Morning tea outside the Truck Museum in Mangatanoka Morning Tea on PhotoPeach

Visit to Paihiatua Police Station Station Visit on PhotoPeach

 Good times!

Farewell Mel ... for now

A thank you from the BoT

Presentation of our gift created and signed by the students and staff of KHS

We look forward to meeting the new addition to your family Mel!

Creating a maze

Today we shared the Big Book called The Gardener’s Maze by Dot Meharry. 

We then had a discussion about mazes and direction.

• The Fantails created mazes using blocks with verbal directions using left, right, forwards, backwards

• While the rest of the school were introduced to compass reading. In small groups they had to write direction between two points in the school using the compass points N S E W NW NE SW SE, as well as land marks. This proved to be a challenging task, especially the part where you always need to stop and check where North is :)

Discovery Week 8, Term 3

Discovery Week 8, Term 3

Managing Self

Liam says that when someone is being pain don’t do it back, just walk away. Role model

Adelle said doing the right thing at the right time. Choices

Ben said, no punching. Hands to yourself

Alicia said no hitting. Hands to yourself

Kristen said that you need to be ready for learning. Responsibility

Olly said that if there is a big line you need to wait patiently. Patience

Hannah said you need to worry about what you are doing, and not the person next to you. Distraction

Discovery Week 8, Term 3 on PhotoPeach

Reflection

What was the hardest thing for you to do today?

Tim and Ben found it hard to make the bay blades because they kept on breaking.

Kristen had to manage herself while trying to get the paint into the corners.

Lucy found it hard to be patient while waiting for her turn to do the painting.

Jack found it hard to keep the water in the trough.

Zachary found it hard to try and made a car out of Klikko.

Paige had to manage herself at the trough so that she didn’t get other people wet.

Bronson had to manage himself by finding the right pieces to make a dragon.

I am proud of myself today because I …

… didn’t get anyone dirty with the paint – Hannah

… finished my wood block well – William

… didn’t get anybody covered in paint – Jessie

… had a good try at the paint activity – Zoe

… made a pyramid with Mr Williams – Bradley

… made a cheese cutter – Sam

… joined in to make a play – Lucy

… made a hover hut out of Klikko with Thomas H – Jack

… made a gate out of Klikko – Alicia

Discovery Term 3, Week 5

Today in discovery we did painting with our feet, painting like Michaelangelo (painting under the tables), ice chalk painting and photography.

Discovery Term 3, Week 3

Discovery Term 2, Week 3 on PhotoPeach

Reflections

Now I Know…

Poppies are the same colour as roses Alicia

How to build a wooden 22 Harrison

How to paint a poppy Bronson

How to put a warratah in the ground Jonathan

How to make a stretcher Paige

I want to know more about …..

Where people slept during war James

How to make bigger  hospital bases Liam

About ww1 TF

What it was like in the mud Kaiden

Building stuff Aramona

What else the nurses did other than bandaging? Tara

I wonder……

How comfortable it would be to sleep in trenches Marc

If we can paint boxes and put wheels on them Ryan

Did the nurse get tired of running around Adelle

How many people the nurse treated in WW1 Kim

How long did they have to wait for a shower Denise

How did they dig the trenches so deep Zac

Kumeroa-Hopelands School Science Fair 2014

Take a moment to look over all of our fabulous entries.

Science Fair presentations on PhotoPeach
And the winners are ...

Category: Year 3/4

Most Original Question - Zac (absent)

Best Presentation - Hannah

Thoroughness of testing - William

Depth of thinking in conclusion - Adelle

Student Choice ... goes to Hannah!

Category: Year 5/6

Most Original Question - Thomas F

Best Presentation - George

Thoroughness of testing - Jade

Depth of thinking in conclusion - Jack

Student Choice ... goes to Jade!

Category: Year 7/8

Most Original Question - Legend

Best Presentation - Kristen

Thoroughness of testing - Thomas H

Depth of thinking in conclusion - Jessie

Student Choice ... goes to Kristen!

Overall Winner

Jade!!

Congratulations to you all for the effort and enthusiasm you put into your science projects.

Let's celebrate!

Week 9, Term 2

Relating to Others

Joining in

Kind words         à thinking about our words

Being helpful        à making suggestions

                           à showing

Role model

Being respectful

Pajama Day to raise money for Canteen

Discovery Week 9, Term 2 on PhotoPeach
 The dance performance!

Reflection

Today I discovered …

Aramona – Jack discovered how to use music on YouTube

Ryan – Marc discovered how to make a cinema

Kimberley – Akaisha discovered that when everyone is shouting it isn’t successful

Cohen – Kaiden discovered not to throw the ball so hard

Trin – George discovered building things

Zoe – Paige discovered some new dance moves

The most difficult thing was …

Alicia – Thomas H found catching and throwing the ball from the third line difficult

George – Liam’s difficult thing was putting a play together. People weren’t sharing the space and resources

Liam W – Jessie had made a square of blocks and then had to work out how to put blocks in the middle

Today I was successful because …

Sam – Jonathan was successful that he made progress on his list

Olly – Ryan was successful using the rebound net, especially catching

Bradley – Alicia was successful in the dance by learning new moves

Bronson – Cohen was successful by helping Marc with the play

Maybe we should have thought more about sharing when creating plays. Is it harder to share when we need to share space?

WALT...We are learning to write a report

Kitten’s

Do you want a kitten but you don’t know how to organise one? Will this report has information that can help you.

To organise a kitten

To organise a kitten you need a possum cage or a cat cage or a cat cage to bring it home in and you also a box and some cat litter for the kitten to go toilet in.

What food does a kitten need?

Kitten’s need kitten biscuits and jelly meat, kitten’s also need plenty of water to drink. To get kitten food you can go the store and ask the store owner how much food you need to give them.

Fun

Kitten’s are a fun thing to have but you still need one more thing, some toys for it to play with for example some string, a ball and a stick. You also need a climbing frame as well, you can make one yourself or you can buy one with a pole on it for the kitten to climb.

Now you know how to organise a kitten and you have all the information for it. You can now enjoy your time with your new kitten.

By Paige Taylor

WALT:write a report

Our School

Kumeroa Hopelands School is a lovely small school. It is a rural, country, primary school, on the outskirts of Woodville. It has a lot to offer.

Discovery Time

This is a time where we can choose to do an activity. For example: Dress-Ups, Construction, Klikko, and woodwork table. For Dress-Ups you can dress up in whatever you like. Construction you can build anything also you can construct with the klikko”s. Woodwork you can build anything. We then come back together and we do donuts in our house groups and talk about what we did each day.

Technology

We have sixteen computers that people can work on. We are able to go on to our gmail account, Studyladder for maths. We do work like type up our writing and our poems.

Fort

We are able to play ball games like: Ball tag, netball, dodge ball, basketball, poison and kicks. People also play other games. We have a fun fort and we are lucky to have a fort like it.

Tree’s

Tree’s is a great thing to have at a country school. We have a lot of tree’s to play on and they are good for shade and for people to read underneath.

Plenty of Equipment

Do you have enough of equipment at your school? Well this is the school that has enough for people that want to play in groups and for people that want to play by themselves. We have equipment galore.

Join with other Schools

This is a time when we join together. For example: Small Schools Swimming Sports, Athletics, Small Schools Cross Country and a seven a-side tournament. We also get to see our friends and we get to meet other people.

Kumeroa Hopelands School is an exciting place to be providing different opportunities within our Community.   

By Tara

WALT ... write a report

Kumeroa Hopelands School

Kumeroa Hopelands School is a rural primary school.

Sports

Kumeroa Hopelands School has lots of good sports gear like soccer balls, rugby gear and sandpit toys. The school also joins in with other schools. We join in with small schools swimming sports, and even more.

Playground Environment

At this school we have some trees you can climb and some you cannot climb. Kumeroa Hopelands school has a good fort you can play on.

Learning Opportunities

This amazing school also goes on activities outside the school grounds like camps and trips to the museum.

On Friday forget about your work in the morning because it is time for discovery.

So I hope you like Kumeroa Hopelands school and that you will come here.

Written by Bradley

Discovery Term 2, Week 8

Key Competency - Thinking

Using kind words.  Before you speak, you think – Akaisha

Thinking about whether it is a bad choice or not – Bradley

Thinking about others – Marc

Thinking about your actions – Jack

Thinking About your attitude and how it might affect others – Paige

Am I being helpful or not – Zoe

Thinking about your ideas – William

Before you start, think about what you’re going to do – Tara

Discovery Term 2, Week 8 on PhotoPeach
Collaborating with Nature on PhotoPeach

Reflections

What did you learn today?

Adelle learnt that some leaves are made up out of tiny bits

Zac learnt how to do the art things –

 Trin learnt jump jam, he had to do lots of thinking about dancing.

Lots of people found it hard to think about using their feet and hands at the same time.

Tara – Jade learnt that you could made big trees out of little branches.

Thomas H – Ryan learned not to hurt his fingers with the hammer

Thomas H learned that if you change the light by flicking the switch the thing looked quite differently

Jonathan found that the bigger the cone, that louder the noise was.

Jack learnt through the clip that we human ears can listen between 20 – 20,00 hurtz

Kimberley learned that if you put a third cone on the string it still works

Who helped you today? And how did they help?

George - Zac helped Thomas with some wood to put something together.

Nobody helped George today.

Bradley – Jack helped me make a bike ramp, by nailing the nails in because every time I did it, I hit my fingers.

Alicia had lots of girls helping you with jump jam. Paige said the man on the DVD helped too.

William - Ms Edmond helped me bang in a nail on my army tank

Jessie had a lot of people helping her test her balance board.  It started off as a seesaw but it was made too close to the ground. People tried to get even balances, how many people, matching weights to keep it even by adding on different people. Aramona found that he was heavier than Legend.

What the hardest thing for you to do today?

Nathan – Ben found it hard trapping his spiders on his piece of paper. Nathan found making his wooden chair done because people were rushing him.

Kristen – Jack found jump jam was the hardest

Kristen found the hiphop hard

Zoe – Lucy’s hardest thing was figuring out what to make out in the woodwork area. Zoe found jump jam hard, especially the moves.

William found banging in nails hard to do.

Reading, reading, reading

Friday Week 8 saw another great example of 

Buddy Reading ... 

... then during the wet lunch these girls made them selves a cozy space to read together as well!

Dale Percy

Mr Percy is an author and illustrator. He came in to show us the books he has illustrated and the one book he has written called Summer Within.
He read us one of the books called The Fish Truck, this was based in Martinborough and Ngawe.
Mr Percy's son re-wrote The Three Bad Bunnies. His father had told it to Mr Percy every night, and then told it to his own children every night. Then his son Phillip Percy wrote it into a book. So this poem is over 100 years old.
Mr Percy used water colour to paint the pictures. He drew the pictures first with pencil and then used a black pen to do the outlines. After this he rubbed out the pencil lines, followed by using water colour paint.
Mr Percy is a local person from Kohinui, and he had never been to Kumeroa-Hopelands School before. He was brought up in Alfredton and went to Tararua College.

Ideas contributed by Kimberley, Olly, Jack, Bradley, Kirsten, Lucy, Tara, Adelle and Paige

WALT ... use similes

An Apple Poem

My apple is as colourful as burning flames.

It feels like my duvet cover pulled tight.

It has dents like my car bonnet.

It looks as bright as the first three colours of the rainbow.

My apple smells like a sour lolly, but tastes like a sweet one.

It crunches like a cracker, and is as juicy as a trickling stream.

Co-constructed in the Kea Room during a poetry workshop.

Published by Kimberley

... more presentations

More science presentations from the Nest

Scientist Jonathan

Scientist Thomas



Scientist Kristen


... and from the Kea Room
Scientist Zoe

Scientist Tara

Scientist Bradley

Scientist Akaisha

Scientist Liam

Scientist Paige

Oral Language presentations

Oral Language Term 2

Science is Everywhere

Your task this term is to explore scientists.

1 - choose a type of science that interests you (hint: scientist jobs are often jobs that end in ‘ist’ eg; chemist, psychologist, marine biologist ….. but there are many more!)

2- research how to become this type of scientist, how long do they train for, where do they train, what they do in their job, what tools or equipment do they use, where do they work, and who/what do they help?

3 - present your findings to your classmates by coming in ‘role’.

·         Come dressed as this scientist.

·         Introduce yourself as the scientist.

·         Explain what your job involves.

·         Show us pictures or examples of the tools/equipment you use.

·         Show us pictures of places you work.

·         Tell us about who you help.

·         Explain why this is a good job to have.

The Kea Room presents ...

Dr Lucy

Dr Tim



Dr George

Dr Nathan

Scientist Thomas



Scientist Olly

The Nest presents ...

Scientist Jessie

Scientist Jack

Scientist Adelle

Scientist Kimberley

Scientist Hannah

Scientist Thomas

Scientist Jade

WALT ... freeze

In preparation for our science learning and final presentations we have been learning some drama conventions to help us 'get into character'.

This convention was called 'freeze frame'. The scenario was the corner shop was being robbed.

WALA ... the brainy bunch

We have been really lucky to have the Life Education mobile classroom come to visit us at Kumeroa-Hopelands. The Brainy Bunch learning was aimed at the Years 4-5, check out our pictures.

WALT ... use a format

For Poetry we have been learning to follow a format and make the poem more interesting by adding similes.

Poems on PhotoPeach

WALT ... write the next book

During Shared Reading in the Kea Room we read the book called Stuck by Oliver Jeffers.

This book finished with an open ending. Tim thought it would be a great idea to write the next book.

... watch this space for 
'The Great Idea' by the Kea Class

The writing begins ...

The Great Idea

Hey maties I’ve got a great idea! I’ll grab my cell phone from my pocket and ring the police.

While they were waiting for the police to arrive, the fireman threw everything down from the tree. Except the humongous boat which was just too heavy for the firemen to lift.

Flloyd saw everything on the ground. He got so mad that his face turned red like the reddest tomato, and steam came out of his ears. So, he decided to chuck everything back up angrily.

Stop right there, shouted the policeman. What are you doing?

Floyd turned to see a policeman standing behind him with a taser in his hand. With a cheeky smirk on his face, Flloyd dived for his stumpy fat legs, and before the policeman knew it, he was up in the tree too.

Floyd rang the security guards and asked them to stay at the tree for the night to watch the things in the tree to make sure they didn’t climb or jump down.

Unfortunately the security guards fell asleep at the base of the tree, but were woken with the sound of cracking, crackling, squeaking and other strange noises.

The security guards looked up and saw the tree swaying from side to side. One of them said, oh its fine.

Slowly the tree begins to tip towards the ground, followed by a gigantic boom!

The security guards were squashed under the gigantic trunk and all the people in the tree were then free to run away. The objects in the tree were also free but will still stuck in-between the branches like a net.

But instead of the people running away, they chased after Floyd to catch him and put him behind bars in the cells. Floyd felt scared as he noticed the people become an angry mob and charge towards him.

Floyd ran towards a tree as fast as a charging rhinoceros. Leaping into its branches …

… and there he still sits, stuck in the tree.